SD-WAN Contract Job Trends in the Channel Islands

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
UK > Channel Islands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Channel Islands requiring SD-WAN skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SD-WAN 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Channel Islands 20.00% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 75.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile £818 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -14.29% -0.47% +11.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Channel Islands

SD-WAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Channel Islands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Channel Islands 26.67% 44.44% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -66.67%
75th Percentile £788 - £225
90th Percentile £818 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

SD-WAN
Contract Job Locations in the Channel Islands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SD-WAN within the Channel Islands region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Jersey - 3 £725 -
SD-WAN
UK

SD-WAN
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Channel Islands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) SNMP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
1 3 (100.00%) Network Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 3 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 3 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (66.67%) DDoS Mitigation
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds